Safe-deposit receptacle or box for use in trunks and the like.



T. S. SPIVEY 61 G. A. HATTERSLEY. SAFE DEPOSIT RECEPTAGLE 0R BOX FOR USE IN TRUNKS AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION HLED SEPT. 14, 1912. 1,168,914.

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T. S. SPlVEY & G. A. HATTEHSLEY. SAFE DEPOSIT RECEPTACLE 0R BOX FOR USE IN TRUNKS AND THE LIKE. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. I4, 1912.

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THOMAS S. SPIVEY, OFCINCINNATI, AND GEORGE A. I-IATTERSLEY, OF NORWOOD, OHIO, ASSIGNORS TO THE VICTOR SAFE & LOCK COMPANY, OF NORWOOLD, OHIO, CORPO- SAFE-DEPOSIT RECEPTACLE OR BOX FOR USE IN TRUNKS AND THE-LIKE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

PatentedJan. 18, 1916.

Application filed September 14, 1912. Serial No. 720,423.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, THOMAS S. Srrvnx and Gnonsn A. HATTERsLEY, both citizens of the United States, and residents, respectively, of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, and of Norwood, in said county and State, have jointly invented a new and useful Improvement in Safe-Deposit Receptacles or Boxes for Use in Trunks and the like, of which the following is a specification. 4

This invention relates to caskets or boxes for use in containing valuables such as money, jewels and the like, and more particularly to such boxes as are adapted to be carried about by the owner in trunks or other traveling receptacles that are intended for the packing of his clothing and other articles of wear and personal use.

The object of the invention herein is to provide a safety-deposit box or casket made of metal or other suitable strong material and adapted to be removably-locked in place in a corner or elsewhere in the trunk so that the owner can have a reasonable amount of security against petty thieves or ordinary light-fingered persons who may be intent on robbing his trunk .of only such things as money, jewels and other small objects of like character that can be placed in a small box.

Another object of the invention ,is to adapt said safety-deposit box to be released from its locked position in the trunk so that the owner or other authorized person can readily handle the box for transferring it in a locked condition to the safe or vault in a hotel ofiice or the like where such things are placed for safe-keeping in the ordinary course of arranging with the hotel people to meet the laws and rules regulating the presence of valuables in such public places.

Such being the salient objects of the invention herein without going into the details of structure we will now proceed to describe such details and what they consist in in connection with the accompanying sev- 1 and showing the safety-deposit box'in but showing a modified form of means used in securing the box or casket to the floor of the trunk; Fig. 6, a perspective View of the floor-strip used in the modified structure shown in Fig. '5; Fig. 7, a fragmentary end view of the body of the box or casket showing the lid thereof in raised or open position on its'rear hinges and especially showing the notch or recess in the upper edge of the end wall of the box for the seating of the locking-hook shown in Fig. 4; Fig. 8, a perspective view of another modified form of safety-deposit box or casket adapted to the purposes of our invention herein but not operated in a sliding manner such as is'the box-shown in the previous view; Fig. 9, a fragmentary section of one lower corner'of the trunk showing the structure of box seen in Fig. 8 innormal locked position therein andshowing in clotted-lines the manner in which the box-lid is thrown open and the body of the box itself istilted for disengaging its lower, flanged, fore edge from locked position under the inner shouldered edge of a floor-strip; Fig. 10, a sectional plan of the structure seen in Fig. 9; and

Fig. 11, a fragmentary sectional perspective of one of the lower corners of the trunk showing the manner in which the floor and wall strips are arranged and attached in the same'modified form seen in Figs. 8, 9 and 10, for receiving the safety-deposit box, the latter being shown in dotted-lines in the position it assumes when in locked place for the security to be afforded the owner of the trunk and its special contents pursuant to the objects of the invention herein.

1 indicates the bottom or floor of the trunk, 2 the rear wall thereof and 3 the end wall thereof. These parts 1, 2 and 3 form the rear lower corner, to the left, of any ordinary trunk or packing case for containing the personal Wear of the user. We refer to said rear lower corner because it is a remote one and not easily gotten at by the intruder without removing the contents above it.

4 and 5 respectively indicate the fore and rear walls ofi an ordinary rectangular box or casket; 6 and 7 the respective opposite end walls of said box; 8 the bottom of the box and 9 the lid of the box hinged along.

itsrear edge to the upper edge of the'rear wall 5. I

10indicates the lid lock in the fore edge thereof, as customary.

11 indicates a suitable handle adaptedto be attached so as to fold or lie flatly on the top of the lid and intended for use in carrying or otherwise handling the box.

12, 12 indicate parallel floor-strips or inwardly-flanged chairs, one of which is at-' tached to the floor by means of either nails or screws 18 along the rear wall 2 of the V trunk andthe other one of which is similarly attached to the trunk floor at a distance to suit the extended width of the bottom of the box, such extended width being composed of lateral projections 14 arranged in spaced series along the'base edges of the fore and rear walls 4 and 5, respectively, of said box, as best seen in Fig. 3. The inwardly-flanged upper edge of each floor-strip or chair 12 is cut out or notched as shown at 15, such 1 1 notches being of slightly greater length than that of each of the lateral projections 14 on the box and adapted to permit the lateral projections 14 to pass upward and clear said flanges of the chairs when the box is slid lengthwise away from the end wall 3 of the trunk at the time it is desired to remove the box from locked-position in the trunk. The

manner of notching the flanges of the chairs and of providing the series of projections 14 adapts the box to but a short or limited movement away from said end wall 3 of the trunk, such movement being but the length of one of the projections 14 and not necessitating a lengthwise movement the entire length of the box as it would be should said 'flanges on the chairs be continuous ones.

the center of the bottom or underside of the box and entirely concealing the joint between the two strips 16 and 18 when they are inclosed relation for holding the box in locked position. The side edges of the strip end wall 3 of the trunk.

18 are notched in a manner similar to the notchesoin the longitudinal edges of the floor-strip 16, but the notches are arranged so that they register only at the moment the projecting parts 20 are brought into alinement with them ,when the box is slidlengthwise the length of a notch away from the Either style of floor-attachment can be used, the latter style above-named being adapted to bring the rear wall of the box closer to the rear wall 2 of r bottom of the box that increases the depth of space required in which'to place said box in the safe or vault of a hotel or elsewhere when removed from the trunk. V

, In order to prevent endwise movement of the box and to lock it in place to prevent. sliding relation between the strip-engaging device on the bottom of'the box, we provide a hook 21 having aver'tical leg or attaching portion 22, the latter being secured'in place, in a concealed manner, to the inner face of the end wall 3 of the trunk, as best seen in Fig. 4. The pendent portion or deep nose 28 of the hook 21 engages the upper inner corner of the end wall 6 of the box when in locked relation, the horizontal portion of the hook resting, at the time, in a depression or recess 24 made in the upper edge of said end wall 6 of the box, as best seen in Figs. 4 and 7 such depression 24 allowing the horizontal portion of the hook to lie flush with said upper edge of the end wall 6 and thereby permitting the lid 9 of the box to close flatly in place for proper locking-engagement. When the lid 9 is closed and locked, it firmly and securely holds the hook in engagement with the end wall 6 of the box so that the box can not be slid lengthwise away from the end wall 3 of the trunk and, in order to further secure the box against endwise movement, the inner end of the lid 9 is extended, as shown at 25 in Figs. 1, ,3 and 4, so that the horizontal portion of the hook 21 cannot be tampered with, as it is thereby entirely covered and concealed from picking or view.

The hook 21 cannot be released from the end wall 6 of the box until the lid 9 is unlocked and raised and it certainly forms a very simple means of preventing the release of the box from place.

Instead of attaching the box in place,

within the trunk so that it must be slid endwise, we may provide its bottom" with of the box being brought into contact with the end wall 3 of the trunk. The fioor-strip 32 prevents the sliding of the box endwise and the box cannot be removed from locked position in the trunk until its locked lid has been raised so that the rear extension 27 of the lid can be freed from engagement beneath the wall-strip 29 and the box tilted forward on its lower flange 26, as best seen in dotted-lines in Fig. 9. This form of structure is a very simple one and somewhat less expensive and more easily manipulated than that of the structure shown and described in the first seven views of the drawings, and it is shown and described herein to illustrate how the invention is capable of considerable modification without departing from the spirit and scope thereof.

It is obvious that the walls of the box or casket, including its bottom and lid may be made of a single thickness of metal or other suitable material, or they may be made of several spaced thicknesses of material to form hollow walls that can be filled with fire-proof material to safe-guard the box against fire, which is very material and quite important, especially when trunks and packing-cases are seldom, if ever, made of fire-proof material. In the drawings, the said walls, bottom and lid are all shown as being made of single-thickness material.

\Ve claim:

1. A removable safety-deposit box or casket for use in trunks and like receptacles comprising end walls, side walls, a bottom having lateral extensions along its longitudinal edges, a lid having a lock, a pair of fioor-strips having inwardly-disposed upper flanges adapted to engage the said lateral extensions along the longitudinal edges of the box, and a hook attached to the end wall of the trunk adjacent one end wall of the box and adapted to engage said lastnamed end wall of the box when the lid is in locked position to prevent the sliding of the box endwise from locked-relation with said floor-strips.

2. A removable safety-deposit box or casket for use in trunks and like receptacles comprising end walls, side walls, a bottom having notched lateral extensions along its longitudinal edges, a lid having a suitable lock and, also, having one of its ends extending beyond the adjacent end wall of the box, a pair of floor-strips suitably attached to the bottom of the trunk and having inwardly-disposed upper flanges that are notched to coincide with the notched lateral extensions along the box bottom and adapted to engage the said lateral extensions along the longitudinal edges of the box, and a hook having a shank attached to the end wall of the trunk adjacent said last-named end wall of the box that lies beneath the said extended end of the lid and adapted to engage a recess or gain in the upper edge of said last-named end wall of the box when the lid is in locked position to prevent the endwise sliding of the box from locked relation with said floorstrips.

3. In combination, a removable safetydeposit box or casket adaptedfor use in trunks and like receptacles and comprising end-Walls, side-Walls, a bottom and a top lid having locking-means, detent-means on the horizontal-bottom and on one of the vertical-walls of the trunk or receptacle, and means on the box or casket adapted to contact and interlock with said detentmeans on the trunk bottom and verticalwall, whereby both the horizontal and vertical movements of the said box within the trunk are prevented until the lid of the box is unlocked and thrown open.

THOMAS S. SPIVEY. GEORGE A. HATTERSLEY. Witnesses:

RALPH W. RINEHART, JOHN ELIAS JONES.

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